
Ava Heller (Student)

Elizebeth Coleman (President of Bennington)

Jami Marshal Lively (Student)

Gladden Schrock's Hands (Bennington Staff)

Kyra Scemema (Student)
This is my first time working with people in such a formal way. For my lighting class I decided to do studio portraiture, and this was also a first. I had never set foot in a studio to do a project for myself.
I noticed that this project's simplicity was more of a response to what my classmates were doing. Everybody was trying to come up with the most original idea, and that was most of the time very complicated; extravagant plot's, complicated lighting, so on and so forth. I decided to go with something a bit simpler. Oddly enough this is the story of most of my photography. I'm quite tired of creating complicated pieces. Not that there is anything wrong with that. But I am at a stage where I am trying to get at the core of, well everything. So with my subjects I was trying to get them without posing them, so everything you see here was a posture that the subjects discovered for themselves, although I would pose them initially (first 2 rolls of film) to get them comfortable. But eventually they got comfortable and experimented for themselves.
Tell me what you think.